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Show ONE SURVIVOR OF SHIPWRECK French Ship Crashes Into Reef and All But One of 157 Persons on Board Perish. Palraa. Driven helplessly from her course, in one of tho wildest storms that has swept tho Mediterranean in forty years, the French Transatlantic ra Steamship company's steamer General I Chanzy, whllo running full speed in u the dead of night, crashed on tho JS treacherous reefs near the island of Minorca and all except one of tho 157 l:' persons on board perished. j( The sole survivor Is an Algerian customs official, Mnrcel Rodel, who 1 was rescued by a fisherman and who lies in tne hospital at Cludadela, rav lng as a result of tho tortures through r' which he passed, and unable to glva jj an account of the disaster. In the ship's company therowere78 g passengers, of whom 30 were in the I first cnbln. The crow numbered 70. It is not thought that any Americans gj were aboard. The ship was In com- H mand of Coptaln Cayol, one of tho B most careful officers of the line. In gj his long experience he had never met H I with an accident. He had intended to 1 retire from the service soon. R Passengers of the Chanzy wero gj mostly officers and officials returning g from their posts In Algeria, accom- l panled by their wives and children, a g I fow soldiers, some Italians and Turks, I and one priest. Tho only Anglo-Saxon I names on the passenger list were u Green and Stakely. They were mem- u bers of an opera troupe of 11 that had g been engaged to sing In the casino at H Algiers. fij |